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Special Water Board Meeting
November 30, 1982
MEMBERS PRESENT Ward Fischer, Norm Evans, Henry Caulfield, Bernie Cain
EV Richardson, George Wallace, Dave Stewart
STAFF PRESENT Roger Krempel, Mike Smith, Dennis Bode, John Huisjen
City Attorney, and Paul Ez knan, Asst. City Attorney
GUEST Dave Frick, Resource Consultants
Chairman Ward Fischer opened the meeting. The following items were
discussed:
Ditch Consolidation Agreement
Dave Frick of Resource Consultants gave an overview of what has been
accomplished since the last update was given to the Water Board.
Ebllowing the overview, Dennis Bode distributed outlines of the major
provisions of the agreement which he explained briefly.
After discussing the agreement one section at a time, Eb Richardson moved
with a second from Henry Caulfield, that the Board approve the conceptual
contract subject to the various comments offered by members which include
the following: 1) The Ditch Companies should have approval powers for
various storm drainage facilities and improvements only over those
facilities that would affect irrigation deliveries. 2) A guaranteed
delivery percentage should not apply to CBT water deliveries through the
ditches. 3) In all applicable areas references to measuring water in and
out should be included in the agreement.
Following further discussion, the motion was approved unanimously.
Two other areas of interest by Board members were 1) whether the benefits
of storm drainage were great enough that the Storm Drainage Utility would be
willing to pay the Water Utility for inducements to the Ditch Companies, 2)
that it would be desirable for the storm drainage utility to begin a
monitoring program to gather base data for storm water quality.
New Business
Water Board Members had received copies of a memo from John Arnold sent to
Roger Krempel in which the City Manager related that, after attending the
last Water Board meeting and hearing Tom Sanders report on several board
members' concerns regarding the two term limit, he too is concerned about the
expiration of terms of many of the long-standing members of the Water Board.
He suggested that the board sukmit a recommendation for reconsideration of
the two -term limit to the entire City Council. Henry Caulfield was asked to
follow up on this suggestion with other committee members Tom Sanders, Dave
Stewart, and Mort Bitting er and prepare some kind of a recommendation to be
brought back to the Board.
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Other Business
EW Richardson reported that the Engineering Committee will be meeting soon
to discuss some of the concerns which have resulted from the latest Black and
Veatch study regarding alternative plans for Water Treatment Plant #1 in the
Poudre Canyon.
Roger Krempel announced that Water Board Members and other board and
commission members were invited as guests of the City to the musical
production, "A Christmans Carol" on December llth at the Lincoln Center in
appreciation of their dedicated service to the City of Fort Collins. Mr.
Krempel said that he hoped many of the Board members plan to attehd.
Roger Krempel related that the City is in the process of analyzing the
effectiveness of staff relations with boards and commissions. It has been
suggested that there needs to be more emphasis on orientation of new
members. The initial.step.in the analysis will be a survey of board anal --
commission members assessing what they think about staff input and support.
Following the survey, there will be a group decision -making training session
scheduled. It is anticipated that this will be about a half day overview of
group analysis at which the Water Board, the Storm Drainage Board and the
Parking Commission will participate together on general areas.
Subsequently, the Water Board will meet for about a half day session
organized just for then. Mr. Krempel said that he wanted members to know
that this will be coming up and that they will learn more about it later.
Proposed Anheuser-Busch Contract with the City of Fort Collins
At this point Chairman Ward Fischer excused himself from the meeting and
announced that he would not participate in the discussion of the proposed
contract because he had been hired to do some work for Anheuser-Busch some
of which involved some of the matters included with the proposed contract.
He further stated that he would decline to participate in any discussion and
abstain fran any votes regarding matters pertaining to Anheuser-Busch. Vice
Chairman Norm Evans took charge of the meeting.
The Board members discussed at length the sections of the proposed agreement
which pertained to water and wastewater. The resolution approved by the
Board will be read by Norm Evans at the public forum conducted by the City
Council on the evening of Thursday, December 9th. Following a motion by
Everett Richardson and a second from Henry Caulfield, Board members Norm
Evans, Henry Caulfield, Ev Richardson, George Wallace and Bernie Cain voted
for approval. Dave Stewart abstained from the vote because of a conflict of
interest.
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line resolution approved by five of the six Board members in Attendance
follows :
After carefully reviewing the City's proposed contract with the Anheuser—
Busch Company, the Water Board believes that the agreement is in compliance
with all the City policies and ordinances presently used by the City related
to water and wastewater; moreover, in the case of water, the ordinance has
been exceeded with respect to the per acre requirement. The proposed
contract was reviewed primarily in terms of technical capability and the
ability for development to pay its way, and not specifically in terms of any
possible effects on land use or the quality of life in Fort Collins. Early
in the process, at its September meeting, the Water Board recommended that
the water for the Brewery be procured by the City in a variety of ways, over
time, thus satisfying Board policies to preserve agriculture and to prevent
the price of water fran escalating. This recommendation was subsequently
adopted as a part of the water negotiations.
Since there was no further business the meeting was adjourned at 5:15 P.M.
7n� yl
Water Board Secretary